Florida's Seminole Wars1817-1858  (FL) (Making of America)
Publisher: Arcadia   Publishing; Arcadia Pub. Co.
Published: April 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780738524245
Subjects: United States - State & Local - South; Native American; History; History - General History; History: American; United States - 19th Century; United States - State & Local - General
First sentence: The waters of the Apalachicola River sluggishly pushed towards the Gulf of Mexico, just like they always have and will.
Description: "Among the most well known of Florida's native peoples, the Seminole Indians frustrated troops of militia and volunteer soldiers for decades during the first half of the nineteenth century in the ongoing struggle to keep hold of their ancestral lands. While careers and reputations of American military and political leaders were made and destroyed in the mosquito-infested swamps of Florida's interior, the Seminoles and their allies, including the Miccosukee tribe and many escaped slaves, managed to wage war on their own terms. The study of guerrilla warfare tactics employed by the Seminoles may have aided modern American forces fighting in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and other regions. Years before the first shots of the Civil War were fired, Florida witnessed a clash of wills and ways that prompted three wars unlike any others in America's history, although many of the same policies and mistakes were made in the Indian wars west of the Mississippi."--Amazon.